Movies and TvShows featuring "self-government" theme.

In an effort to redeem himself, a politician becomes the superintendent of a corrupt reform school. He tries to bring about positive change but faces opposition from the school's corrupt staff and powerful gangster. He must navigate politics and corruption to save the children trapped in the reformatory.

In Thunder Over the Plains, a Texas captain works to protect the people from a corrupt commissioner in the post-Civil War period. He becomes a fugitive after being falsely accused of murder and must race against time to clear his name and bring the corrupt commissioner to justice.

A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.

A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.

A love-struck man discovers he has an incurable illness shortly after meeting the woman of his dreams.

The story of Boys Town, founded by Father Edward Flanagan in 1917 as a haven for wayward, homeless, and neglected boys.